Beyoncé and Jay Z Top Vanity Fair's List of Power Players, but Are They Really the Most Powerful Couple?

Vanity Fair recently released its annual ranking of "The New Establishment," a list of "25 members of the power elite...[who] are not going anywhere soon" that includes politicians and CEOs, designers and Hollywood execs.

But the No. 1 spot belongs to Beyoncé and Jay Z, up from No. 8 last year.

Are '03 Bonnie and Clyde really the most powerful couple? To answer that, we must look at the very definition of power itself: Kanye West defines "Power" as, "At the end of the day, god damn it I'm killing this s--t / I know damn well y'all feeling this s--t."

"My furs is Mongolian, my ice brought the goalies in / And I embody every characteristic of the egotistic / He knows, he's so f--king gifted."

Upgrade: The tuxes is Tom Ford and the ice is hanging on the neck of "the hottest chick in the game" (aka the modern day Mona Lisa with better features aka his "wife that f--ks him like a prostitute"). As for "f--king gifted," see point No. 1.

"I just needed time alone with my own thoughts / Got treasures in my mind but couldn't open up my own vault."

The former, in this case, could refer to the fact that Beyoncé headlined the Super Bowl not to mention a world wide tour and—uh oh!—still hasn't put out a new album. Because she's taking her time to make it perfect (PUT OUT A NEW ALBUM ALREADY, BEY).

The vault in the latter could refer to "the official Beyoncé archive, a temperature-controlled digital-storage facility that contains virtually every existing photograph of her, every interview she's ever done, every video of every show she's ever performed, every diary entry she's ever recorded while looking into the unblinking eye of her laptop." That vault.